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Contents
February 2002
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| Atlantic
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| | Intermedia Group organises Commercial High Performance Computing Conference
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| | Workshop on Digital Storytelling at IEEE VR 2002 International Virtual Reality Conference
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| | Federal Contract Awards signed with companies in Alabama December 31, 2001 - January 4, 2002
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| | Bush eases computer exports
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| | Compaq Computer Japan's Scalar Supercomputer System up and running at Keio University
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| | Virginia Tech and Johns Hopkins invest $10 million to combat major human diseases
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| Country
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| | ACE Group appoints Joseph van Vlijmen to Corporate Management Team
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| Europe
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| | Institute of Nanotechnology organises investment event
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| | NIC organises Winter School on Quantum Simulations of Complex Many-Body Systems: From Theory to Algorithms
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| | European Commission launches new action line called Presence Research
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| | HLRS Parallel Programming Workshops Spring 2002
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| | HLRS Parallel Programming Workshop in the Internet
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| | Leibniz-Rechenzentrum (LRZ) now with 2 TFlop/s on its Hitachi
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| Industry
- Applications |
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| | IBM and Accelrys form global strategic alliance to transform drug research and development
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| | iSuppli expert forecasts slower than normal turnaround for compute platforms during 2002
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| | Unimax secures Cray project with solution to help supercomputer manufacturer
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| | Einux introduces fastest 1U rack server with AMD's new AMD Athlon XP CPU 2000+
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| | PGI Workstation v3.3 now available
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| | Dassault Systemes and IBM launch first certified mobile workstation for CATIA V5 3D Design Solution
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| | Dassault Systemes welcomes RealViz as a new partner into the software community
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| | ESI Group introduces PAM-OPT to help engineers find best design alternative
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| | MaXware to provide BT Ignite with turnkey meta solutions
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| | Norsk Hydro uses clustering technology from Scali
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| | Geological Survey of Norway buys Scali cluster for modeling of mantle-lithosphere coupling
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| | Black hole mystery energy jets mimicked by NASA supercomputer
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| | Scali releases version 3.0.0 of its Software Platform SPP
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| | Visual Numerics announces JMSL Version 1.0
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| | SGI displays advanced medical imaging technologies at Medicine Meets Virtual Reality Conference
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| | Mascot proteomics software ported to IBM's AIX operating system
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| | GenoMed adds Jason Moore to its scientific advisory board
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| | Interwoven announces IBM AIX support for content management and content distribution product lines
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| | SGI Technology powers Weta Digital's The Lord of the Rings Film Trilogy
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| Industry
- HPCN industry |
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| | Sun Microsystems scores lead in high performance computing market share
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| | Rocketcalc announces Redstone, the first personal cluster computer
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| | Compaq Computer 2001 fourth quarter results
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| | Supercomputer rankings and the IDC benchmarks
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| | Cray ships first Cray MTA-2 Supercomputer System
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| | Hewlett Packard teams with MSC.Software
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| | Japanese scientists design fastest IC
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| | HP and UCLA collaboration receives molecular electronics patent
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| | Sun still in loss
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| | SGI reports second quarter results
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| | Sun sells Sun Fire 15K server to Uppsala University and other customers
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| | RackSaver increases computing capacity with new RS-1200 rack-optimised server design
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| Industry
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| | Linux Clusters Institute Workshop set for Montpellier, France
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| | School in high performance computing on Linux Clusters
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| | NEC launches blade server products
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| | RackSaver builds world's first 1U rack-optimised Intel Pentium 4 Server
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| Industry
- Media |
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| | Disney/Pixar Monsters movie on SGI Octane
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| | UCLA Physics department selects PV-WAVE as data visualization solution
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| Industry
- The Grid |
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| | AVAKI announces three key additions to executive management team
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| | IDC, Platform Computing and Compaq present Grid Computing Web Seminar
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| | iGrid 2002 Conference focuses on e-Science, Grid and Virtual Laboratory Applications
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| | Professor Stephen Hawking signs five-year deal with SGI
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| | GridSim Toolkit released
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| | Thai Group releases Omega - simplified AccesGrid software
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| | Sun Microsystems donates to TACC Grid Research
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| | Sun Fire 15k system running Oracle9i delivers world's fastest TPC data warehouse result
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| | Intel provides donation to enhance research and teaching at NPACI partner
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| | HPDC-11 - The International Symposium on Grid Computing
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| | Fourth DataGrid conference
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| | Texas Advanced Computing Center installs 4 IBM eServer p690s and 2 IBM Linux Clusters
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| | Balearic Islands University (UIB) and Gridsystems to apply the Grid technology for computer animation
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| | Spanish Science and Technology Ministry funds several of GridSystems Grid projects
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| | SGI Origin 3800 powers large production single-system-image supercomputer
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| | Computing a cure for Anthrax
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| Networking
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| | KPNQwest delivers high capacity transatlantic connectivity for world's largest research network
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| | 20th NORDUnet Networking Conference organised in Copenhagen
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| | Technology Group Andritz chooses KPNQwest for global IP VPN Solution
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| | XtremeSpectrum supports DoD position for ultra-wideband emissions
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Leads
February 2002
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| Atlantic
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| | Intermedia Group organises Commercial High Performance Computing Conference
Intermedia Group's Commercial High Performance Computing Conference is the only industry event that is dedicated to providing IT and business executives an understanding of all of the issues related to the application of high performance computing (HPC) technologies and techniques to mainstream corporate and commercial business systems. The conference and exhibition will be held at the Hyatt Orlando in Kissimmee, Florida on March 19-20, 2002.
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| | Workshop on Digital Storytelling at IEEE VR 2002 International Virtual Reality Conference
The IEEE VR2002 Conference organises a workshop on Digital Storytelling for March 25th, 2002. Extended Abstracts for this workshop can be submitted by February 11, 2002. Full papers will be due to March 10th. |
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| | Federal Contract Awards signed with companies in Alabama December 31, 2001 - January 4, 2002
Federal contract awards in excess of $100,000 were announced by the US Department of Commerce and the US Department of Defense for companies located in Alabama December 31, 2001 - January 4, 2002.
Madison Research Corp., Huntsville, won a $400,000 contract from the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command, Huntsville, for support required to maintain the supercomputer centre that supports the ballistic missile defense organisation, national missile defense, theater missile defense, and the space and missile defense command and high performance computing modernisation office projects and other government agency programmes.
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| | Bush eases computer exports
The United States' supercomputer technology will be available to Russia, China, India, and Pakistan because of a Bush administration decision to relax Cold War-era restrictions.
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| | Compaq Computer Japan's Scalar Supercomputer System up and running at Keio University
The massively parallel computing system of Compaq Japan is now up and running at the Information Technology Center (ITC) of Keio University.
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| | Virginia Tech and Johns Hopkins invest $10 million to combat major human diseases
Virginia Bioinformatics Institute (VBI) at Virginia Tech and the Johns Hopkins University (JHU) Bloomberg School of Public Health have signed a $10 million bioinformatics research collaboration to target human infectious diseases. Each university will invest a minimum of $1 million per year for five years to better understand tuberculosis, AIDS, malaria, measles, and other deadly illnesses. Worldwide, more than 17 million people each year succumb to these and other infectious diseases.
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| | ACE Group appoints Joseph van Vlijmen to Corporate Management Team
The ACE Group, developers of advanced system software products, has appointed Joseph van Vlijmen to its corporate management team. In the last few years, ACE has invested significantly in worldwide growth, especially in the embedded arena through subsidiary ACE Associated Compiler Experts. |
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| Europe
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| | Institute of Nanotechnology organises investment event
Building on the phenomenal success of the Institute's first investment
meeting in Spring 2001, follows the second "Investing in Nanotechnology"
event, scheduled for March 19, 2002 at the Royal Society, London.
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| | NIC organises Winter School on Quantum Simulations of Complex Many-Body Systems: From Theory to Algorithms
This Winter School is held at the Rolduc Conference Centre in Kerkrade, The Netherlands from February 25 to March 1, 2002. It will cover modern quantum simulation techniques and their implementation on high-performance computers, in particular on parallel systems. The focus clearly is on numerical methods which are tailored to treat large quantum systems with many coupled degrees of freedom ranging from superfluid Helium to chemical reactions. |
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| | European Commission launches new action line called Presence Research
Recently, the European Commission organised a specific information day in Brussels for action line
VI.2.2: Presence Research. This "pro-active initiative" resides under the programme part
Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) within the IST-Programme. In general, it constitutes a cross-fertilisation of KA 3 "Multimedia Content and Tools" and KA 4 "Essential Technologies and Infrastructures" from the IST-Programme. |
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| | HLRS Parallel Programming Workshops Spring 2002
The High-Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS) organises three workshops in the Spring of 2002. Lectures will be given by Dr. Rolf Rabenseifner, member of MPI-2 Forum, and P. Adamidis, H. Berger, Th. Boenisch, U. Kuester, and Dr. M. Mueller. The course language is German. All slides and handouts are in English.
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| | HLRS Parallel Programming Workshop in the Internet
HLRS (Höchstleistungsrechenzentrum, High-Performance Computer Center Stuttgart) put its 6-day parallel programming workshop into the Internet. It is available in three versions: ONLINE, Online presentation of the slides without audio information; ONLINE-English, Online presentation
of the slides with english audio information; and PDF, a full copy of the slides with 2 slides per sheet to print the course material. |
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| | Leibniz-Rechenzentrum (LRZ) now with 2 TFlop/s on its Hitachi
Leibniz-Rechenzentrum (LRZ) of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences upgraded its Hitachi SR8000 and
increased its memory capacity and performance by 50%. In addition to the SR8000, LRZ also runs an IBM 8-way Power-4 shared memory multiprocessor, a Linux Cluster, and a Fujitsu Siemens VPP700 vector computer with 52 nodes. The latter has a peak performance of 114 GFlop/s and serves as high performance platform for Bavarian universities and research activities.
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| Industry
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| | IBM and Accelrys form global strategic alliance to transform drug research and development
IBM and Accelrys Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Pharmacopeia Inc., have signed a global strategic alliance to enhance drug research and development (R&D) operations by creating a collaborative information technology environment for chemists and biologists to develop new drugs faster, more efficiently, and at lower costs.
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| | iSuppli expert forecasts slower than normal turnaround for compute platforms during 2002
Sales of compute platforms, one of the major drivers for increasing semiconductor revenues during past electronic market recoveries, won't provide the double-digit forward momentum experienced in the past during 2002, according to the latest projections from the iSuppli Market Intelligence Services. |
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| | Unimax secures Cray project with solution to help supercomputer manufacturer
Unimax Systems Corporation, a provider of enterprise software solutions that simplifies the management of phone, messaging, and IP telephony systems, recently secured a contract with Cray Inc. This contract will provide a centralised, single point of entry solution that integrates several telecommunication databases into one management framework.
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| | Einux introduces fastest 1U rack server with AMD's new AMD Athlon XP CPU 2000+
Einux launched the A.Serv A1150 XP2000+, the fastest single processor 1U rackmount server available today utilising AMD's new AMD Athlon XP processors, including the AMD Athlon XP processor 2000+. The A1150 XP2000+ 1U starts at a price of $1995 making it the most cost-effective 1U rackservers available combining high-speed performance with AMD value and technology. It extends Einux's line of high density server solutions offering the lowest total cost of ownership (TCO) and total cost of management (TCM) in the industry.
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| | PGI Workstation v3.3 now available
The PGI Workstation v3.3 release is now available for download. Users can click on the appropriate Portland Group download pages, register and follow directions for details on how to download. |
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| | Dassault Systemes and IBM launch first certified mobile workstation for CATIA V5 3D Design Solution
IBM's ThinkPad A30p has become the notebook computer certified for CATIA Version 5, a 3D application developed by Dassault Systemes. IBM and Dassault Systemes have long collaborated on the Product LifecycleManagement needs of manufacturing companies worldwide. This development enables fast and broad support for engineers and developers as they create new products,
regardless of whether they are traveling or working in the office and emphasises the strategic partnership between IBM and Dassault Systemes to provide industrial companies with global solutions.
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| | Dassault Systemes welcomes RealViz as a new partner into the software community
RealViz, specialised in image-based content creation, has joined the Software Community
Programme as a Partner. Through this agreement, RealViz will develop and sell two products that will expand the powerful realistic rendering capabilities of Dassault's CATIA V5 and ENOVIA Portal DMU Solutions by enabling for the first time 3d PLM customers to integrate any virtual object into a real environment (movie or picture). Thanks to these products, boundaries
between the virtual and real worlds will be removed. |
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| | ESI Group introduces PAM-OPT to help engineers find best design alternative
ESI Group, a provider of virtual prototyping and manufacturing solutions, has made available PAM-OPT, its new optimisation solution. PAM-OPT automates the costly time-consuming trial and error process of design and manufacturing optimisation. |
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| | MaXware to provide BT Ignite with turnkey meta solutions
MaXware International AS, a provider of technology independent meta solutions, has signed a contract with BT Ignite, BT Group's international solutions and broadband business, for the provision of MaXware's EMSTM (Enterprise Meta Solution). This forms a key element of
BT Ignite's recently launched Enterprise Directory service. |
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| | Norsk Hydro uses clustering technology from Scali
Norsk Hydro IS Partner has acquired a
Scali cluster for use by Hydro Automotive Structures. Through
development and manufacturing of extruded aluminum profiles, Hydro
Automotive Structures supply several car manufacturers with bumper
beams and space frames. The cluster combines Intel Pentium IV
architecture with Scali's network technology, SCI, and ScaMPI, Scali's native
MPI implementation.
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| | Geological Survey of Norway buys Scali cluster for modeling of mantle-lithosphere coupling
The Geodynamics Center at the Geological
Survey of Norway (NGU) has acquired a 16 CPU Scali
cluster for its research into key problems of computational physics
and plate tectonics, mantle convection, generation of the Earth's
magnetic field, lithospheric stress and strain and other processes.
Based on Scali's network technology, SCI, and Scali's native superior
performance MPI implementation - ScaMPI, the cluster provides
computational infrastructure for the newly established Geodynamic
Center at NGU. |
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| | Black hole mystery energy jets mimicked by NASA supercomputer
Advanced supercomputers have simulated extremely powerful energy jets squirted out by black holes, the most exotic and powerful objects in the universe.
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| | Scali releases version 3.0.0 of its Software Platform SPP
Scali has released the 3.0.0 version of the Scali Software Platform with a bandwidth performance of 320 MBytes/s. This is a new major release of the SSP which contains Scali's new line of cluster management and high performance middleware products. |
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| | Visual Numerics announces JMSL Version 1.0
Visual Numerics has released the JMSL Version 1.0, a product that brings IMSL technology to Java programmers.
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| | SGI displays advanced medical imaging technologies at Medicine Meets Virtual Reality Conference
SGI showcased technologies that are revolutionising the high-end medical visualisation market at the 10th Annual Medicine Meets Virtual Reality (MMVR) Conference, January 23-26.
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| | Mascot proteomics software ported to IBM's AIX operating system
Matrix Science has made available Mascot, the market leader in protein identification software, for IBM's AIX 5L UNIX operating system. Porting to AIX was a joint effort between London based Matrix Science and IBM's Chemistry and Life Sciences Solutions Development Division, in Poughkeepsie, New York.
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| | GenoMed adds Jason Moore to its scientific advisory board
GenoMed, a medical genomics biotechnology company, has appointed Dr. Jason Moore to the company's scientific advisory board.
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| | Interwoven announces IBM AIX support for content management and content distribution product lines
Interwoven has signed an agreement with IBM to port its flagship TeamSite software to the IBM AIX 5.1 operating system. Driven by joint customer demand, Interwoven will port its Content Management and Content Distribution product lines, TeamSite and OpenDeploy, along with its Turbo for IBM to AIX, IBM's strategic operating system for its UNIX-based eServer line.
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| | SGI Technology powers Weta Digital's The Lord of the Rings Film Trilogy
Weta Digital evoked the power of more than 230 SGI IRIX OS-based and SGI Linux OS-based visual workstations, storage products, and servers for production, postproduction and visual effects on the much anticipated live-action, CGI-laden The Lord of the Rings film trilogy. |
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| | Sun Microsystems scores lead in high performance computing market share
According to analyst firm International Data Corporation (IDC), Sun Microsystems Inc. is the leading provider of servers in revenue terms for the high performance technical computing (HPC) market for the nine month period ending September 30, 2001. With 22 percent of the $3.6B market, Sun beat rivals Compaq, Hewlett-Packard and IBM and grew its share of the total HPC market by nearly two percent over the same nine month period in the previous year.
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| | Rocketcalc announces Redstone, the first personal cluster computer
Rocketcalc has developed the first personal cluster computer. Approximately the size of a mid-tower PC (17x11x19.5in), Redstone contains eight Pentium processors connected by 100Mbps switched ethernet and up to 8GB PC-133 SDRAM. |
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| | Compaq Computer 2001 fourth quarter results
Compaq Computer Corporation, a global provider of enterprise technology and solutions, reported financial results for the fourth quarter ended December 31, 2001. Revenue for the fourth quarter was $8.5 billion, an improvement of $1 billion - or 14 percent - sequentially, and down 26 percent year-over-year. Net income for the quarter was $92 million, or $0.05 per diluted common share. Excluding a $36 million charge for merger-related expenses, the company earned $0.06 per share.
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| | Supercomputer rankings and the IDC benchmarks
I would like to congratulate the HPC User Forum, the San Diego Supercomputer Centre and IDC for their hard work in developing the IDC Balanced Rating HPC Benchmark. This is a great improvement from the rather limited and distorting picture given by the TOP500 list, which relies on LINPACK and Peak Performance. As stated many times before, high end supercomputing is more than a chip: it also involves memory bandwidth, memory size, and high bandwidth communication system
integration. The IDC Balanced Rating benchmark approach of normalising attributes concerning processor performance, memory system capability and scaling capability is particularly attractive.
(Author: Chris Lazou) |
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| | Cray ships first Cray MTA-2 Supercomputer System
Cray Inc. shipped the first Cray MTA-2 supercomputer system in late December to an unnamed non-U.S. customer. Financial terms were not disclosed.
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| | Hewlett Packard teams with MSC.Software
MSC.Software's High Performance Computing Division has been selected by HP as their global partner for technical computing. The combination of HP's hardware platforms and MSC.Software's Linux cluster distribution and systems integration capabilities gives companies needing computationally intensive computing environments a turnkey solution for performing technical analysis of complex engineering and scientific problems.
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| | Japanese scientists design fastest IC
The world's fastest integrated circuit has been designed in Japan. This chip, which uses properties of a high-temperature superconductor, performs arithmetic operations 135 times faster than any most sophisticated computer available in the world this day.
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| | HP and UCLA collaboration receives molecular electronics patent
Hewlett-Packard Company and UCLA have received a U.S. patent for technology that could make it possible to build very complex logic chips at the molecular scale. The collaboration is pursuing molecular electronics as an entirely new technology that could augment silicon-based integrated circuits within the decade and eventually replace them. Most experts believe that silicon technology will reach its physical and economic limits by about 2012.
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| | Sun still in loss
Sun reported results for the second quarter of fiscal year 2002 which ended December 30, 2001. Revenues for the second quarter were $3.108 billion, a sequential increase of 9% compared with revenues reported for the first quarter of fiscal year 2002, and a decrease of 39% compared with the same period a year ago. Net loss for the second quarter was $99 million. |
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| | SGI reports second quarter results
SGI announced results for its second fiscal quarter which ended December 28, 2001. Revenue for the second quarter was $364 million. This represents 15% sequential growth in product and service revenue from the first quarter.
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| | Sun sells Sun Fire 15K server to Uppsala University and other customers
Sun Fire 15K servers, introduced last September, have been shipped recently to organizations such as Clearstream Services, Mid-Sweden University, Ocwen Technology Xchange, Tai Fook Securities Group, and Uppsala University have already seen the benefits of the Sun Fire 15K server in their enterprise data centers. The Cluster Platform 15K/9960, will begin shipping in two weeks. |
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| | RackSaver increases computing capacity with new RS-1200 rack-optimised server design
The new RS-1200 server chassis designed and manufactured by RackSaver will increase computing capacity up to eight times. It might be hard to imagine increasing your computing power and capability by up to eight times without also having to knock down a few walls to add square footage to your server room. RackSaver has achieved such a milestone with the new RS-1200 server chassis.
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| | Linux Clusters Institute Workshop set for Montpellier, France
The third Linux Clusters Institute (LCI) workshop and the first to be held outside the United States is set for March 18-22 at the IBM Laboratory in Montpellier, France. Participants must register by February 1. Those who plan to participate are encouraged to register as soon as possible since space is limited to 20 people. |
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| | School in high performance computing on Linux Clusters
A two-week School in "High Performance Computing on Linux Clusters" will be held at
the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, Italy,
from 31 January to 15 February 2002, with the co-sponsorship of the Istituto Nazionale per la Fisica della Materia (INFM), Italy. The School will be directed by Stefano Cozzini (INFM, udr SISSA, Italy), with Alvise Nobile (ICTP) as the local organiser. |
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| | NEC launches blade server products
NEC Corporation has started the sale of two models of "Express5800/BladeServer", the board-type (blade) server that employs main components such as CPU and memory on a small board, measuring 128mm x 334mm. It can be used, for instance, for research organisations and universities as a platform for parallel PC cluster systems
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| | RackSaver builds world's first 1U rack-optimised Intel Pentium 4 Server
RackSaver has all the speed and stability of Intel's 2GHz+ Pentium 4 processor packed in a space-efficient, 1U rack-optimised solution called the RS-1133.
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| | Disney/Pixar Monsters movie on SGI Octane
Pixar Animation Studios (Nasdaq: PIXR) has created a monster box office hit, Disney/Pixar's Monsters using Silicon Graphics Octane2 IRIX OS-based visual workstations. In preparation for the production of Monsters. Pixar Animation Studios purchased 250 Silicon Graphics Octane2 visual workstations in July 2000. Pixar used SGI workstations for interactive graphics applications throughout the studio, including 3D modeling, painting, compositing and animation. Silicon Graphics Octane and Octane2 workstations were also used to create and run new lighting tools designed for the film. |
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| | UCLA Physics department selects PV-WAVE as data visualization solution
The University of California at Los Angeles's (UCLA) Physics and Astronomy Department has selected PV-WAVE from Visual Numerics as its data visualization software. |
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- The Grid |
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| | AVAKI announces three key additions to executive management team
AVAKI Corporation, a pioneer in global grid software solutions, has significantly enhanced its executive management team through the addition of three key new executives. Tim Yeaton, George Favaloro and Betsy Zikakis have joined the AVAKI team as Chief Operating Officer, Senior Vice President of Corporate Development and Vice President of Worldwide Marketing, respectively.
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| | IDC, Platform Computing and Compaq present Grid Computing Web Seminar
IDC, Platform Computing and Compaq are organising a Web Seminar on January 23,2002 at 4PM UK time about "Grid Computing: Beyond the Hype". Participants will discuss advancements in Grid Computing and ways of how to improve collaboration and gain competitive advantage.
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| | iGrid 2002 Conference focuses on e-Science, Grid and Virtual Laboratory Applications
iGrid 2002 challenges scientists and technologists to optimally utilise 10Gbps experimental networks, with special emphasis on e-Science, Grid and Virtual Laboratory applications. The Conference will be held in Amsterdam, September 24-26, 2002. Papers can be submitted until February 1, 2002.
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| | Professor Stephen Hawking signs five-year deal with SGI
SGI has signed a contract to provide an SGI Origin 3800 supercomputer to Professor Stephen Hawking's Cosmology Group at the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, U.K. The powerful server will form the core of a new British computational grid being installed by SGI to support the COSMOS project, which enables experts to model the history of the universe from the first fractions of a second after the Big Bang to the present day, more than 10 billion years later.
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| | GridSim Toolkit released
The GridSim consortium released the GridSim toolkit, which is intended for simulating
schedulers for cluster and grid computing. GridSim, is a Java based discrete event simulation package that supports modeling and simulation
of heterogeneous parallel and distributed systems, including SMPs, clusters, P2P, and
Grids, and of users and applications.
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| | Thai Group releases Omega - simplified AccesGrid software
Although the AccessGrid is widely used throughout the world, the technology still has many limitations, especially in the area of
usability. The Thai reserach project Omega aims to investigate issues
such as what kind of infrastructure should be appropriate for developing
countrie and asia pacific region countries. Also they will look at how to make AccessGrid really accessible
to users without much computer expertise. |
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| | Sun Microsystems donates to TACC Grid Research
Sun Microsystems has donated a multi-cpu iForce commercial web server system to the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) to assist Grid researchers. Led by Mary Thomas, the TACC Grid Technologies Group will use these systems for grid research and development as well as for production operation of Grid-based portals and tools. TACC will use this gift, valued at approximately $200,000, to expand substantially its Grid portal hosting and development capabilities. This is reported by TACC News. |
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| | Sun Fire 15k system running Oracle9i delivers world's fastest TPC data warehouse result
Sun announced it is on top of the TPC-H benchmark. Preliminary
tests on the Sun Fire 15K server, Sun StorEdge arrays,
Sun ONE, and Oracle9i have established Sun as the fastest
performing and best price/performance system on the market, the company claims. This industry
standard benchmark was devised in 1999 to represent ad-hoc
queries. Because it is less than three years old and is focused
on ad-hoc queries, this benchmark is still representative of the
real-world decision support and data warehousing applications, Sun says. |
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| | Intel provides donation to enhance research and teaching at NPACI partner
The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at the University of Texas at Austin (UT) will be receiving a donation of high-end hardware from Intel Corporation that will enhance the computational research and training at the Center as well as providing new resources for grid
development in the state of Texas. The emerging grid infrastructure will
ultimately benefit scientists nationwide by allowing a fast, efficient way
for them to process and share data. Intel's donation joins the initiative of IBM and Sun Microsystems.
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| | HPDC-11 - The International Symposium on Grid Computing
HPDC-11, The International Symposium on Grid Computing, has issued a call for papers.the 11th meeting
in the series, will be held for the first time outside the U.S., and for
the first time in conjunction with the Global Grid Forum, the international
body formed in 1998 to promote communication, best practices, and standards
in Grid computing. HPDC-11/GGF-5 will together provide a global meeting
place for those interested in Grid computing technologies and applications. The conference will take place in Edinburgh, July 2002. The submission dead-line has been extended. |
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| | Fourth DataGrid conference
The fourth DataGrid conference will be held March 4-8 in Paris. Although most sessions are for the project only, there is a day open to everyone on March There will be presentations and demonstrations from several European projects: DATAGRID, EUROGRID, ACI GRID, RNTL, RNRT. In the afternoon there is a round-table discussion. |
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| | Texas Advanced Computing Center installs 4 IBM eServer p690s and 2 IBM Linux Clusters
The University of Texas at Austin (UT) will get an IBM supercomputing systems for scientific research into areas as diverse as manned space flight to Mars and next-generation Internet "Grid" computing applications.
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| | Balearic Islands University (UIB) and Gridsystems to apply the Grid technology for computer animation
GridSystems and the Computer Graphics Laboratory from the Balearic Islands University (LADAT) will cooperate to introduce the Grid technology in the world of computer animation. Goal is to optimise the distribution of the huge processor needs among an heterogeneous set of computers, inclusinge Silicon Graphics with Unix and PCs with Windows allowing the generation of animations not feasible with the current technology. |
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| | Spanish Science and Technology Ministry funds several of GridSystems Grid projects
Since 2000, the Spanish Science and Technology Ministry, with the PROFIT program ("Programa de Fomento de la Investigacion Tecnica"), has given Spanish company GridSystems subsidies for more than 1 Million euro to study the applications of Grid technology in several projects that have more than 2 Million euro as a total budget. |
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| | SGI Origin 3800 powers large production single-system-image supercomputer
SGI and Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) will provide general access to the world's largest production single-system-image (SSI) supercomputer powered by an SGI Origin 3800 system with 512 processors. This system is immediately available for general-purpose, commercial, industrial and government use on a pay-per-use basis within the CSC portal.
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| | Computing a cure for Anthrax
The National Foundation for Cancer Research said that scientists at the NFCR Center for Computational Drug Design at Oxford University have teamed with technology companies Microsoft, Intel and United Devices in an effort to help combat the deadly Anthrax virus. The initiative utilizes the same technology platform as the recent "Cure Cancer with your Computer" project that turns personal computers around the world into a virtual supercomputer and will be used in the discovery of new drugs to combat anthrax. |
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| | KPNQwest delivers high capacity transatlantic connectivity for world's largest research network
KPNQwest, a pan-European data communications and hosting company, has signed a contract with DANTE, the organisation responsible for managing GEANT, a large academic and research network, to provide two high-capacity transatlantic connections to support its data-intensive academic and scientific research requirements.
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| | 20th NORDUnet Networking Conference organised in Copenhagen
The NORDUnet 2002 Networking Conference, April 15-17, 2002, will provide a general forum to discuss the latest developments in networking technologies and applications. The theme is "Serving the End User". |
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| | Technology Group Andritz chooses KPNQwest for global IP VPN Solution
KPNQwest has signed a deal with the Austrian technology group Andritz,active in high-tech production systems for pulp, paper, steel and other specialised industries, to provide a 20-site, 8-country IP VPN service. |
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| | XtremeSpectrum supports DoD position for ultra-wideband emissions
XtremeSpectrum a privately held company dedicated to bringing ultra-wideband products to the wireless industry, after careful review, will support the position of the Department of Defense (DoD) on ultra-wideband articulated by Assistant Secretary of Defense John Stenbit. Specifically, Stenbit stated in his January 11 letter to Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce Michael Gallagher that DoD required that there be no intentional emissions below 4.2 GHz, except for imaging systems. XtremeSpectrum agrees with this restriction and endorsed no intentional emissions below 4.2 GHz in its recent submission to the US FCC.
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